My accounts on social media fake – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he does not have any accounts on any social media networks.
He said this in Abeokuta on Monday.
Obasanjo was reacting to a twitter account, @newsvergeonline, which had
posted a tweet on Sunday, claiming that the ex-President had described the
Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, as a “democracy wrecker.”
He said the fake twitter account with his name, Olusegun A. Obasanjo, posted the story with caption: ‘Fani-Kayode is a democracy wrecker, who’s very fluent in
stupidity. Give him food, and he will sing and do shoki dance for you’.
Dismissing the twitter account, he explained that all his previous accounts on
either Facebook or Twitter had long been blocked.
Obasanjo said, “I don’t know where this comes from. I don’t have any account on
either the Facebook or Twitter again. Go and block it.”
Obasanjo used the opportunity to caution those using his name to operate illegal
social media accounts, warning that the security agencies had been placed on the alert to fish out the perpetrators.
He said, “Nemesis will catch up with anyone doing this. It is illegal and criminal.
If I have to pass any message to the good people of Nigeria, I know how to go
about it with no controversy.”
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